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[Jun. 30th, 2006|11:44 pm] |
teaching at tdi always leaves me feeling refreshed
in morale and morals |
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[Jun. 20th, 2006|10:46 pm] |
President Bush Covers U2
somebody took hundreds of millisecond clips of Bush's speeches and crunched them together so that he sings bloody sunday.
Furthermore, I recorded my first song
Somebody on SA said that they had never heard an 80's hair metal song about ninjas.
So I wrote one.
The result?
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[Jun. 9th, 2006|06:42 pm] |
I don't normally ask people to do this, but this is important:
Today, the House of Representatives passed a bill that deregulates the telecommunications industry.
What does this mean to you?
It's complicated, but essentially, it means that companies like Google, Youtube, Myspace, and other high-bandwidth companies will have to pay exhorbitant fees. Rather than simply paying bandwidth costs, they could now have to pay the different networks to send traffic.
For instance, let's say Youtube pays a certain amount for bandwidth. Well, unless they choose to pay a lot more than that for essentially a protection scheme from Verizon, Qwest, or other telcos, even though the company pays for a lot of bandwidth you, the user, will not see that improvement.
We are facing an Internet where, even if you own a broadband connection, you will only be able to access your favorite websites at modem speeds unless the companies pay a high price. And if they pay a high price, then that will translate to you, the end user, in the form of subscription costs. The Internet could cease to be free, and start to become a pay-for-use project like cable television.
If you are a registered voter, contact your Senator or Congressmen. Tell them you are against the COPE Act and that you support the Network Neutrality Act.
For more information, visit Google's Website or It's Our Net.
Unless you want the Internet as you know it to be destroyed, do you civic duty. Call your legislators and spread this bulletin. |
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[May. 24th, 2006|06:58 pm] |
Just when I thought I couldn't get any happier today...
The Tom DeLay Defense Website Cites A Colbert Report Interview As Proof Of Liberal Bias.
From ThinkProgress, via Somethingawful.com:
Desperate for Supporters, DeLay Turns to Stephen Colbert
A good sign that Tom DeLay doesnt have the facts on his side: the top source for his latest defense against his critics is Stephen Colbert.
This morning, DeLays legal defense fund sent out a mass email criticizing the movie The Big Buy: Tom DeLays Stolen Congress, by Outfoxed creator Robert Greenwald.
The email features a one-pager on the truth behind Liberal Hollywoods the Big Buy, and the lead item is Colberts interview with Greenwald on Comedy Central (where Colbert plays a faux-conservative, OReilly-esque character). The headline of the fact sheet:
HOLLYWOOD PULLS MICHAEL MOORE ANTICS ON TOM DELAY
COLBERT CRACKS THE STORY ON REAL MOTIVATIONS BEHIND MOVIE
DeLay thinks Colbert is so persuasive, hes now featuring the full video of the interview at the top of the legal funds website. And why not? According to the email, Greenwald crashed and burned under the pressure of Colberts hard-hitting questions, like Who hates America more, you or Michael Moore�
Apparently the people at DeLays legal fund think that Colbert is actually a conservative. Or maybe theyre just that desperate for supporters.
That's right. The DeLay legal fund thinks Colbert's interview is legit.
Oh. My. God. Priceless. |
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[May. 16th, 2006|08:14 pm] |
BRISTOL, N.H. -- State officials said Tuesday that they are concerned about the IPC Upper Dam in Bristol and have begun evacuating residents downstream.
Officials said that they found broken bolts on a side beam of the steel dam. Route 104 in and out of town was closed down. Police and fire officials said they were evacuating residents in case the dam breaks.
Several homes and businesses would be in the path of floodwaters if a dam were to burst. Officials said that they had been keeping an eye on two dams on the Newfound River, both of which were clogged with debris.
An emergency shelter has been set up at the high school.
That's part of the highway near our house. I think we can still get to it though.
( More pictures of Bristol, courtesy of WMUR )
The construction guys will hopefully have the driveway and everything fixed by the end of the week. Then hopefully we'll get some help from FEMA, financially. |
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[May. 15th, 2006|01:31 am] |
Never mind that WMUR is showing roads in Henniker that look like San Francisco post-Earthquake.
Never mind we have 10 more days of rain to come.
Never mind the Merrimack could well flood 6 more feet tomorrow, rising past the 2 feet it is currently flowing below the Everett Turnpike, sending a 4 foot wall of water down a major interstate highway.
Or that there is a temporary bridge on the Merrimack that is about the get wiped out. On that bridge is a gigantic crane, which has a 50% chance of falling and taking out the bridge from Exit 5 to Manchester.
Or that there are three ways out of my neighborhood, and two of them are already closed, and the third is next to rocky pond.
Or even the impressive flooding that Jen Schmidt posted in her LiveJournal
None of this is important, because
( I have pictures of other shit )
That's all I have--didn't get any pictures of the Merrimack, unfortunately, nor any good ones of the roads around me, although some were on WMUR before now. |
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[May. 12th, 2006|01:29 pm] |
I want Bush impeached.
A false war? Helping mastermind the Valerie Plame declassification clusterfuck?
The NSA organizing a database of our calls? The NSA recording our calls? The NSA refusing to allow the DOJ to check out wiretapping because the DOJ doesn't have clearance!
Jesus fuck, what more do we need! |
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[Apr. 30th, 2006|11:35 am] |
Oh my god, did anyone else watch Stephen Colbert roast Bush last night at the AP White House Press Corps Dinner?
He was the headlining speaker. Dear god was that a mistake.
Think Jon Stewart on Crossfire, but Stephen Colbert vs. Bush.
198 meg video
( transcript )
It's no longer on Toy Destruction. Why? Because after less than one day of hosting the file--the first day of the month of May, and I get 50 gigs of transfer a month--my webstats looked like ( this ) |
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[Apr. 27th, 2006|11:12 pm] |
So the College has come under criticism lately for a plan where the town has the right of first refusal and will keep students from renting houses off campus if the ratio of students/full time tenants goes over 50% in the city.
So this group of hippies (part of the reformed SDS) has been camping out on the Gardens "until the admin kicks us off." They go to class and shower in dorms and eat at the dining halls--but sleep in tents on the fields. So it's a pretty fucking pathetic protest--they're not undergoing any real hardship. They're basically waiting until the College asks them to leave, so that they can trumpet to the newswires that "college protest against housing laws kicked off campus!!! OMFG NAZIS" and they can get their point made and also get more information about the reformed SDS out there.
Then, we get a threat of violence for tomorrow. Turns out someone has essentially called in a bomb threat for the last day of classes (at least a threat of violence, saying there will be a "blowup" on "blowout")
College calls the cops and the FBI...who, as a security risk, kick the hippies of campus, playing right into their hands.
I give it a week before this is national news.
Edit
I hear it's already hit the AP newswire. |
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[Apr. 18th, 2006|07:57 pm] |
The show went great.
If you went to the show last year and would like a copy of me and shane and mike mcgee performing together, let me know. I'm sure he'd be fine with it, considering how much he loved us all. |
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[Mar. 29th, 2006|02:29 am] |
Edit: I'm completely rewriting it, saving only a few choice lines. Updated one will be posted later.
Need slam poetry feedback. I haven't written a good one since Deer Eyes, and Mike's coming to perform at WM on April 15th.
I wrote this about my dear sweet friend Bill and his sadistic gift giving habits which I both adore and LOATH.
Some liberties with dates and times are taken. That is all.
( Why friends don't let friends give gifts: Or, my sadistic friend Bill, and his penchant for destroying every positive association with presents that I have ever had )
HELP. Flow still seems weird to me, although I love parts of it and like most of it. It just doesn't have enough flow or wordplay--it reads too much like one of Taylor's dry poems, where he doesn't have any intra-line poetry (alliteration, stress, meter, rhyme).
Any critique is welcome--nay, DEMANDED! |
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[Mar. 26th, 2006|09:09 pm] |
Atheists identified as America's most distrusted minority.
From a telephone sampling of more than 2,000 households, university researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in “sharing their vision of American society.” Atheists are also the minority group most Americans are least willing to allow their children to marry.
Well. So much for a secular, reasonable society. |
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